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REVIEW OF: "Fominykh Evgeny - Wiest Bert, Upper bounds for the complexity of torus knot complements, J. Knot Theory Ramifications 22, No. 10, Article ID 1350053, 19 p. (2013)". [DE062240723]
No full textThe definition of Matveev complexity c(M) of a compact 3-manifold with nonempty boundary M is based on
the existence of an almost simple spine for M: see [Acta Appl. Math. 19 (2), 101130 (1990; Zbl 0724.57012)].
The complexity of a given 3-manifold is generally hard to compute from the theoretical point of view, leaving
aside the concrete enumeration of its spines: see, for example, [ACM monogr. 9 (2003; Zbl 1048.57001)] and
[Algebr. Geom. Topol. 11 (3), 1257-1265 (2011; Zbl. 1229.57010)], together with their references.
In the paper under discussion the authors establish an upper bound for the Matveev complexity of any
Seifert fibered 3-manifold with nonempty boundary M, by realizing M as an assembling of several copies
of five particular building blocks, whose skeleta contain a known number of true vertices. As a consequence,
they obtain potentially sharp bounds on the Matveev complexity of torus knot complements
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Algorithms and genericity in the braid groups
No full textLa théorie des groupes de tresses s'inscrit au croisement de plusieurs domaines des mathématiques, en particulier, l'algèbre et la géométrie. La recherche actuelle s'étend dans chacune de ces directions, et de riches développements naissent du mariage de ces deux aspects. D'un point de vue géométrique, le groupe des tresses à n brins est vu comme le groupe modulaire d'un disque à n trous, avec composante de bord. On peut représenter une tresse par un diagramme de courbes, c'est-à-dire l'image d'une famille fixée d'arcs sur le disque, par l'élément correspondant du groupe modulaire. Dans cette thèse est présenté l'algorithme de relaxations par la droite, qui permet de retrouver, étant donné un diagramme de courbes, la tresse à partir de laquelle il a été obtenu. Cet algorithme aide à faire le lien entre des propriétés géométriques du diagramme de courbes, et des propriétés algébriques du mot de tresse, en permettant de repérer de grandes puissances d'un générateur sous forme de spirales dans le diagramme de courbes. D'un point de vue algébrique, le groupe de tresses est l'exemple classique de groupe de Garside. L'un des objectifs actuels des recherches en théorie de Garside est d'obtenir un algorithme de résolution en temps polynomial du problème de conjugaison dans les groupes de tresses. À cette fin, on cherche à exploiter les propriétés de certains ensembles finis de conjugués d'une tresse, qui sont des invariants de conjugaison. L'un des résultats de cette thèse concerne la taille d'un de ces invariants, l'ensemble super-sommital : on exhibe une famille de tresses pseudo-anosoviennes dont l'ensemble super-sommital est de taille exponentielle. González-Meneses avait déjà établi le résultat similaire pour une famille de tresses réductibles. La conséquence de ces résultats est qu'on ne peut pas espérer résoudre le problème de conjugaison en temps polynomial au moyen de cet ensemble, et qu'il vaut mieux chercher à exploiter des invariants plus petits. Dans le cas des tresses pseudo-anosoviennes, des espoirs résident actuellement en l'ensemble des circuits glissants. Dans cette thèse, un algorithme en temps polynomial s'appuyant sur ce dernier ensemble résout génériquement le problème de conjugaison, c'est-à-dire qu'il le résout pour une proportion de tresses tendant exponentiellement vite vers 1 lorsque la longueur de la tresse tend vers l'infini. On montre également que, dans une boule du graphe de Cayley avec pour générateurs les tresses simples, une tresse générique est pseudo-anosovienne, ce qui était une conjecture bien connue des spécialistes de la théorie de Garside.The theory of braid groups is at the intersection of several areas of mathematics, especially algebra and geometry. The current research extends in each of these directions, leading to rich developments. From a geometrical point of view, the braid group on n strands is seen as the mapping class group of a disc with n punctures, with boundary component. A braid can be represented by a curve diagram, that is to say, the image of a family of arcs attached to the disc, by the corresponding mapping class. In this thesis we present the algorithm of relaxations from the right, which, given a curve diagram, determines the braid from which it was obtained. This algorithm helps us to make the link between geometric properties of the curve diagram and algebraic properties of the braid word, allowing us to identify great powers of a generator as spirals in the curve diagram. From an algebraic point of view, the braid group is the classical example of a Garside group. One of the objectives of current research in Garside theory is to obtain a polynomial time algorithm to solve the conjugacy problem in braid groups. For this, a possibility is to exploit the properties of some finite sets of conjugates of a braid, which are invariants of the conjugacy classes. One of the results of this thesis concerns the size of one of these invariants, the super summit set: we construct a family of pseudo-Anosov braids whose super summit set has exponential size. González- Meneses had already established the similar result for a family of reducible braids. These results implies that we cannot hope to solve the conjugacy problem in polynomial time through this set, and it is better to try to use smaller invariants. In the case of pseudo-Anosov braids, one may hope that the so-called sliding circuit set is more useful. In this thesis, we present a polynomial time algorithm based on this last set which generically solves the conjugacy problem, that is to say, it solves it for a proportion of braids that tends exponentially fast to 1 as the length of the braid tends to infinity. We also show that, in a ball of the Cayley graph with generators the simple braids, a braid is generically pseudo-Anosov, which was a well-known conjecture for the specialists in Garside theory
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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